Originally published in France in 1999, the
Cometa Report
(titled UFOs and Defense: What Should We Prepare For?) made a
valuable contribution to the subject of UFOs.
The following is
extracted from an opening statement contained in the report from
French Air Force General Denis Letty and gives
valuable background data on Cometa and its findings.
“The accumulation of
well-documented sightings made by credible witnesses forces us to
consider from now on all of the hypotheses regarding the origin of
unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, and the
extraterrestrial hypothesis, in particular.”
The document continues:
Although no characterized
threat has been perceived to date in France, it seemed necessary to
the former auditors of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense
Nationale (IHEDN) to take stock of the subject.
Along with qualified experts from extremely varied backgrounds, they
are grouped together to form a private in-depth fact-finding
committee, which was christened COMETA. This
committee was transformed into a COMETA association,
which I chair.
COMETA
members included:
Those who contributed to the study included:
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Edmond Campagnac, former Technical Director of Air France
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Squadron
Commander Michel Perrier
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Air Force General Joseph Domage
Among the subjects covered
within the report are: the testimony of French pilots who had seen
UFOs; close encounters in France; aeronautical cases from around the
world; radar-based UFO incidents; and political, religious and
scientific implications relating to the UFO mystery.
The
July
1947 events at Roswell, New Mexico are also covered in
an appendix titled “The Roswell Affair - Disinformation”.
This section makes a valuable contribution to the way in which the
U.S. government’s program of disinformation has been utilized to
successfully diffuse interest in, and confuse the truth surrounding,
the
Roswell UFO crash.
Contents
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Full Transcription of
Cometa Report
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Part I - Facts and Testimonies
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Part II - The Extent of Our
Knowledge
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Part III - UFOs and Defense
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Cometa Report (Acrobat Reader format)
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Introduction
(177 Kb)
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Part 1
(579 Kb)
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Part 2
(722 Kb)
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Part 3
(1,277 Kb)
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Appendices
(648 Kb)
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